"RHA gun crew positions in action?" Topic
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4th Cuirassier | 13 Jun 2021 6:26 a.m. PST |
Hi all I have some 30mm Calder Craft / Hinchliffe RHA gun crew and a 9-pounder gun that I feel like painting. The poses are: at attention holding a round ventsman reaching with portfire wielding rammer holding a bucket NCO pointing Which side of the piece should these guys be standing? They're very nice sculpts and although billed as 30mm are completely 28mm compatible. |
Brechtel198 | 13 Jun 2021 6:40 a.m. PST |
All gun crews no matter which army usually took the same positions when manning the piece. The only country that was different was Great Britain. The Royal Artillery had the piece fired from the opposite side than anyone else. I don't know why. -At attention would most probably be at the trail of the piece. -Thumbing the vent the cannoneer would be on the left of the piece. -The rammer would be on the right side of the piece in front. -The cannoneer holding the round would be in front on the right. -NCO pointing (aiming) the piece would be on the left side of the piece behind the breech using the sight (if mounted) with one hand on the elevating screw to elevate or depress the gun tube as needed. -Cannoneer holding a bucket would be with the cannoneer with the rammer as the piece has to be swabbed after firing. -Cannoneer with porfire would be on the left side of the piece out of the line of the wheel. |
advocate | 14 Jun 2021 3:45 a.m. PST |
We drive on the other side too. Anyone at the trail would, of course, be well back from it… |
Rod MacArthur | 14 Jun 2021 7:04 a.m. PST |
Advocate, We may drive on the opposite side of the road, but artillery horse drawn teams of all nations put their drivers on the left horse, so they could better control the other horse with their right hand, so that would not explain it. Originally almost everyone drove on the left, since that allowed a civilian coach driver, holding the reins in the centre, so sitting on the right of the vehicle, with his whip in his right hand, to be best placed to safely judge the distance between vehicles when passing an oncoming vehicle. Napoleonic changed that to give his military vehicles the same control when their drivers (as in all military teams) were mounted on the left horse. Many other countries followed the French example, but not UK or many Commonwealth countries in Southern Africa, South East Asia, Australasia plus Japan. Rod |
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